Product Description: Despite its origins in European models, the practice of art history in the United States has evolved into institutional protocols distinct from those of countries such as Germany, France, England and the Netherlands. Fourteen international scholars examine how these varying disciplinary practices might be characterized, in theory and actuality, in the past and the present, comparing the function of higher education in different national contexts and the extent that professionalisation encourages or limits critical innovation...read more

Product Description: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was the only Impressionist artist to paint Orientalist themes, yet little has been written about the two journeys he took to the French North African colony of Algeria in 1881 and 1882. There he created more than two dozen stunning works, depicting exotic scenes of ancient stone mosques, milling crowds at a festival in the Casbah, and spectacular palm fronds in the botanical garden...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This catalogue focuses on a selection of languorous beauties that Rossetti painted between c. 1860 and 1870. Its centerpiece is The Blue Bower, a masterpiece that Rossetti executed in 1865. This seminal picture is explored within the context of the artist's development and personal circumstances during the 1860s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian is the first book to examine late nineteenth-century Paris's most famous training ground for the leading women artists of the period. The Académie Julian was founded in Paris in 1868, initially to prepare students for entry to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the nineteenth-century's preeminent art school...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines and discusses the pastels, watercolors, and drawings of the nineteenth-century French painter (view table of contents)

Product Description: Public art museums and photography developed at a comparable historic moment in the mid-19th century. No museum had a more interesting relationship with photography in that period than the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Known originally as the South Kensington Museum, the institution not only collected photographs as early as 1853 but commissioned them for documentary purposes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Some 850 objects, including 76 by the great Huguenot masters, are illustrated and catalogued in chapters organised by use, a unique social context. Glossary, concordance, bibliography, duotone details of decoration, marks, coats of arms. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: By the time John Singer Sargent turned thirty, years old in 1886, he already commanded an international reputation in the art world, creating a stream of works for exhibition that people eagerly awaited and discussed at length. Henry, James noted that Sargent's talent offered "the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle" of an artist on the threshold of his career who in fact had nothing more to learn...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Highlights of one of America's great small museums; paintings and sculpture (including masterpieces by the French Impressionists and Americans Cassatt, Homer, Remington, and Saregent), drawings and prints, decorative arts (including masterworks of silver), and illustrated books.